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Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by peteradio »

desindol wrote: post #8
losvedir wrote: post #2

Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!

Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by capableweb »

mr_sturd wrote: post #21

Port explicitly specified in at least one URL. Was HTTP without a standard port back in '94?

> On March 1990 they published the document RFC1060 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1060) where they listed the well-known ports at that time. In that list there wasn't a protocol assigned to port 80. It went from 79 to 81:

    79       FINGER     Finger                                
    81       HOSTS2-NS  HOSTS2 Name Server
> So, at that time port 80 was officially free.

> In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee issued the first version of HTTP in a document about HTTP 0.9 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html) where he stated:

>> If the port number is not specified, 80 is always assumed for HTTP.

> Then in July 1992 was published RFC 1340 that obsoletes RFC 1060 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340) where appears:

    finger           79/tcp    Finger                            
    finger           79/udp    Finger                            
    www              80/tcp    World Wide Web HTTP               
    www              80/udp    World Wide Web HTTP
> That document makes official the port 80 as www or http. [...]

From https://superuser.com/a/996843

So at 1994, 80 is pretty much the default, but sometimes it was specified anyways, just like some addresses you see around still prints/shows http:// / https://. Not everyone know what part of the URI is important or not.

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by instance »

peteradio wrote: post #22
desindol wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.

Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html

"Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by mikehollinger »

1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's when I was in high school. He bought SellMemphis.com, SellAtlanta.com, etc and wanted to create a directory for local businesses. Also - good on you, Philips Flowers, for keeping 1800florals.com in what must've been intense pressure from 1800flowers.com!

2. We still can't buy items directly in-stream. However, product placement is huge, and not just for consumer goods. Music featured in Stranger Things ends up trending on Spotify. Apple creates a playlist (in its own platform) for "Defiant Jazz," featured in Severance, also on its own platform).

3. Regulation (or lack of regulation) played out in an interesting way. We now have an interesting problem with digital infrastructure in the US anyway, where copper cables (still) only get you so far, wireless is the new expectation, and countries that -had- no comms infrastructure are by default more modern now than large tracts of the US, because they skipped past the "telephone poll" phase straight to cell towers.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003609/http://branch.com...

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by sn41 »

desindol wrote: post #8
losvedir wrote: post #2

Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!

Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

#30

Post by cypress66 »

mikehollinger wrote: post #27

1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's when I was in high school. He bought SellMemphis.com, SellAtlanta.com, etc and wanted to create a directory for local businesses. Also - good on you, Philips Flowers, for keeping 1800florals.com in…

Cell towers are not a replacement for wired connections. There's only so much data rate you can have for a given frequency bandwidth[1]. Wires (or fibers) work around this because the medium isn't shared. Each wire has the entire spectrum for itself.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theo...

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